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Interior West FIA User Group Meeting

Interior West FIA User Group Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT March 22, 2011. FIA. Purpose of the User Group. Provide an update on FIA Share Information on Analysis & Techniques research Seek Feedback Are we helping you? What changes do you recommend?.

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Interior West FIA User Group Meeting

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  1. Interior West FIAUser Group Meeting Salt Lake City, UT March 22, 2011 FIA

  2. Purpose of the User Group • Provide an update on FIA • Share Informationon Analysis & Techniques research • Seek Feedback • Are we helping you? • What changes do you recommend? FIA

  3. FIA Update • Status of FIA Nationally • FIA National User Group meeting • Status of FIA in the Interior West • Inventory • Budget • Game plan • FIA Strategic Planning FIA

  4. Status of FIA - Nationally FIA

  5. Not annualized Annualized FIA FIA implementation status, 2010-2011

  6. States/Islands by cycle length FY 2010 Other islands (periodic) American Samoa Guam Palau Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Federated States of Micronesia Republic of the Marshall Islands 5-year cycle 7-year cycle 10-year cycle

  7. 11. Harrison EF, Mississippi 12. Tenderfoot Creek EF, Montana 13. Bartlett EF, New Hampshire 14. Hubbard Brook EF, New Hampshire 15. Silas Little EF, New Jersey 16. Coweeta Hydrological Lab, North Carolina 17. Luquillo EF, Puerto Rico 18. San Juan ULTRA, Puerto Rico 19. Santee EF, South Carolina 20. Great Basin Experimental Range, Utah 21. Estate Thomas EF, U.S. Virgin Islands 1. Bonanza Creek EF, Alaska 2. Fort Valley EF, Arizona 3. Alum Creek EF, Arkansas 4. Crossett EF, Arkansas 5. Fraser EF, Colorado 6. Hawaii Experimental Tropical Forest, Hawaii 7. Priest River EF, Idaho 8. Baltimore Ecosystem Study, Maryland 9. Marcell EF, Minnesota 10. Tallahatchie EF, Mississippi EF&Rs 2010 $2 Million 7 12 9 13 14 15 20 5 8 16 2 3 10 19 4 11 1 6 18 17 21

  8. Availability of FIA data, 2010 42 States plus coastal AK under 3 years (84%) Other islands (periodic) American Samoa Guam Palau Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Federated States of Micronesia Republic of the Marshall Islands 1 to 2 years old 3 to 5 years old More than 5 years old

  9. Strong Partner Support increased $1 million in 2010 $7.9 Million or 9%

  10. Strong commitment to partnersGrants & Agreements increased $1 million in 2010 19.4%

  11. Grants and Agreements - outgoing

  12. Status of FY 2011 FIA Funding

  13. 2011 FIA Funding Response The R&D Appropriation total in HR-1 is exactly the same as the FY 2011 President’s Budget • $2 million was for intensification of FIA plots on/adjacent to Experimental Forests. We intend to implement this reduction and stop EF&R plot intensification for 2011. • $3 million remaining reduction will require immediate program adjustments the next 6 months. We intend to alter field work, because half of our program cost is data collection.

  14. National Goals for 2011 • Maintain inventory activity in all 50 States? • Publish 10 more 5-year State Reports • Prepare upgrade to Field Manual 6.0 • Continue TPO national redesign • Prepare final draft of Forest Atlas • Continue online tool development • Continue emphasis on safety and efficiency • Continue FIA Strategic Plan revision

  15. FIA Program Funding for FY 2012

  16. What We Think Users Want … • Maintain a consistent national program - all 50 states • Continue with an annualized inventory • Manage FY 2011 activities towards the future funding outlined in the FY 2012 President’s Budget. Examples: • Critically evaluate what data and analyses we can no longer afford at a reduced funding level • Terminate external research & applications linked to them • Use “lite” versions of P3 on the P2 sub-panels (e.g., soils, down woody materials and vegetation) • Delete other P3 measures (e.g., crowns, lichens, ozone) • Reduce the number of plots measured each year

  17. Status of FIA – Interior West FIA

  18. FIA Regional Programs Pacific NW FIA Northern FIA Interior West FIA FIA Southern FIA

  19. Status of Inventory FIA Remeasurement Multiple panels completed by 2012

  20. IW-FIA Annual Progress

  21. IW-FIA Funding history $3.9 million deficit $0.5 million deficit

  22. IW-FIA Expenditures - 2010 FIA

  23. IW-FIA Expenditures - 2010 FIA

  24. FY2011 Budget • 2011 Reductions • $1.4 million reduction in R&D funding • 20% reduction in travel costs • 2011 Impacts • Stop EF&R work • Stop P3 data collection • Reduce travel FIA

  25. FY2012 Budget • 2012 Reductions • $1.4 million reduction in R&D funding • $2.1 million reduction in State and Private funding • 2012 Impacts • Stop States? (those just in, or those that have 10 years?) • Discontinue P3/move to “lite” versions? • Reduce plots/increase cycle length/subsample remeasurement? • Eastern Units – cycle length FIA

  26. What can YOU do? • Your FIA Management Team reps: • Gary Lettman – Western State Rep (OR Div. of Forestry) • David Meriwether – NFS • Borys Tkacz – S&PF/FHM • FS - Regional Foresters, WO staff, RMRS • Your State associations such as • National Assoc. of State Foresters (NASF) • Western Forestry Leadership Coalition (WFLC) FIA

  27. FIA 2013-2017 Strategic Plan • Process: • Regional scoping sessions • Strategic Plan process discussed by FIA Management Team • Focus group sessions will be held to formally seek input from targeted groups • The FIA National User Group will review the focus topic findings and make recommendations on priorities • Final draft of Plan will be prepared  and sent out for public review FIA

  28. Let’s Get Started! • What’s going on in IW-FIA • You provide feedback to us: • Questions • Concerns • Ideas FIA

  29. Questions so far? FIA

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